I always liked to watch reruns of Twilight Zone growing up, but I had no idea that Rod Sterling was as eloquent and reflective as he is in this interview.
Basically the US media is happy to point out injustices as long as those injustices are in a far away land and the use of comedy to mask our own in the US. This might be where the “American Exceptionalism” stems from. Nightly programs that shows everyone else’s fucked shit but our own
The Twilight Zone, season 1 episode 2, October 9, 1959 - One for the angels
closing narration:
"Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But, throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore, a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places – but it did happen in the Twilight Zone."
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The Twilight Zone, Season 1 episode1 (Oct 2, 1959) - Where is everybody?
closing narration: "The barrier of loneliness: The palpable, desperate need of the human animal to be with his fellow man. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting, in The Twilight Zone."
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Last night's episode of The Twilight Zone was very moving ❤️
It's the story of a mute little girl with telepathic abilities whom some adults try to help. All the actors are excellent.
Rod Serling won his first Emmy on this date in 1956.
He would win 5 more, en route to becoming the most honored writer in television history.
"That's a real good thing you did, Mark Antony. Real good!”
What a surprise to see a young Dennis Hopper in The Twilight Zone! 😮
He plays a neurotic neo-Nazi. The actor gives a fine performance (as do the other actors), and some scenes really shook me up ☹️ (because they feel so relevant to current events)
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Ernst Ganz: I've seen it before. I've seen it all before.
Proprietor: That was another time, Mr. Ganz. Another place, another kind of people. That doesn't go here.
Ernst Ganz: That's what we said, too. They were brown scum. Temporary insanity, part of the passing scene, too monstrous to be real. So, we ignored them or laughed at them. Because we couldn't believe that there were enough insane people to walk alongside of them. And then one morning, the country woke up from an uneasy sleep, and there was no more laughter. The Peter Vollmers had taken over. The wild animals had changed places with us in the cage. But not again. It mustn't happen again. We can't let it. We simply can't let it happen again. All, all that nightmare. Oh, no. No, not this time.
As I continue working through Rod Serling's #TwilightZone, I have two more observations:
1. The #cigarette smoking. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, cigarette smoking was more prevalent than it is now, but I don't remember it being like this. If the episodes are a proper reflection of the 60s, then it's a wonder we didn't die out by my birth.
2. I continue to see its influence in media from every decade I've lived, but next up is S4, Ep12 (3/21/1963), "I Dream of Genie." That's a bit much.
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